Example sentences of "the [det] [conj] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So well known was the latter that the Department of Health and Social Security lists the elderly among patients ‘ who may be at increased risk ’ . |
| 2 | This poem foreshadows the method of the later , greater poetry of The Waste Land in trying to hold the most primitive and most developed in one by letting the former show through the latter and the development of one out of the other be seen . |
| 3 | The funicle comprises those segments which intervene between the ring-segments and the club , or between the latter and the pedicel in cases when the ring-segments are not differentiated . |
| 4 | Green realized he was better with the pencil than writing but made his excuse ‘ were his information for the satisfaction of an individual only , he would prefer the former as a vehicle for information , but to give to the public a numerous series of explanations all cloathed in bodily forms ; besides time and other minor considerations , it is necessary to consult the copper smith , the printer , and the paper merchant . ’ |
| 5 | Those who see the former as an end in itself … insofar as they comprise the present leadership of the NICRA … may be expected to lose interest as rights are gained . |
| 6 | Why , then , has the body plan remained the same when the way of life has changed ? |
| 7 | My main job as I see it is that I 'm the exactly the same as a vicar in a civilian parish . |
| 8 | The prices are the same as a holiday in Amsterdam . |
| 9 | Information is just the same as a state of consciousness , be it ordinary , everyday perception , heightened perception using drugs or , as in your case , using sexuality . |
| 10 | For example , a rise in temperature of 10°C is the same as a rise in temperature of 10 K. |
| 11 | The price of books of academic criticism indicates that they are not aimed at the educated general reader ( once they cost about the same as a bottle of whisky ; now they cost three to four times as much ) . |
| 12 | Again think of the example of erm erm a social club you know , relationships between members , although they may be close and intimate and friendly and all that , are not the same as a relationship between members of a family . |
| 13 | It is not quite the same as a promise of indemnity , since it suggests that the primary content is prevention rather than payment . |
| 14 | The effect of such an order under the Act is the same as a discharge in bankruptcy . |
| 15 | My prize for the most colourful quote goes to the scientist who said that the likelihood of humans having come about as the result of evolution was the same as a tornado in a scrapyard having accidentally assembled a Jumbo jet . |
| 16 | a tin of beans in the south will cost the same as a tin on beans in the north . |
| 17 | But Redmire , apart from its almost unique ability to grow exceptionally big carp ( it produced the current record of 51lb 8oz ) , is much the same as a lot of carp waters . |
| 18 | From the discussion of manufacturing output in Chapter 2 , it should be apparent that a growth in employment is not the same as a growth in output . |
| 19 | I decide , I I choose , I will come , I will receive it , but the actual giving of that life , t is the same as the giving of the life to that babe , it was no choice of it , it was no , did n't i , was n't determined by it 's own will . |
| 20 | Will my right hon. Friend confirm that , under the current rules for SERPS , there is a cut-off in the amount which is the same as the cut-off for the earnings limit ? |
| 21 | It has been pointed out that the legal protection of children 's welfare is not the same as the conferment of rights on children , since it presupposes that welfare agencies , judges and even parents would have the right to take decisions on the child 's behalf . |
| 22 | It was the same as the monogram on the handkerchief . |
| 23 | It is no accident that the Greek word for ‘ person ’ is the same as the word for ‘ atom ’ . |
| 24 | It was on channel 20 , the same as the rig in our room , but there was no signal from Danny . |
| 25 | But an information gap is not necessarily the same as the operation of different schemata , which may be working at a deeper and less accessible level . |
| 26 | There were two problems , the youngest children 's reading was n't good enough to manage the menu and most were too short to actually see over the tops of the containers on the heated cabinet to make their choice , because of this when they reached the counter they asked to have the same as the child in front making a nonsense of the notion of choice . |
| 27 | So if the story is correct , the writer of the music for the National Anthem is the same as the composer of the music for Sally In Our Alley . |
| 28 | The cost at the time the system was developed was estimated at about the same as the salary of one personnel officer — for one year — without the costs of an office , car or secretary that the officer would need . |
| 29 | After making an allowance for what you 've used since the meter reader called , is it roughly the same as the reading on your bill ? |
| 30 | The spot yield for a particular term to maturity is the same as the yield on a zero-coupon bond of the same maturity ( hence the alternative name ) . |